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The German composer and conductor, Nikolaus Matthes, was born in 1981 in Berlin, raised in Lüneburg (from 1982) and Basel (from 1991). After his secondary school exams (2000, Higher School Certificate Music), he dedicated himself initially to general pedagogy, and especially to theatre work with young people. From 2001 to 2016, he initiated numerous stagings of classical and modern works within this milieu. From 2004 to 2007, he studied film-making at London Film Academy; and from 2013 to 2018 Bachelor of Arts and Maste of Arts degrees Composition with Michel Roth and Music Theory with Johannes Menke at the Musik-Akademie der Stadt Basel.
Nikolaus Matthes was assistant to the recording producer Stefan Ritzenthaler at Gallus Media Inc. from 2016 to 2019. A deep commitment to the practical aspects of the music of Johann Sebastian Bach, and a contemporary compositional inquiry into the music of J.S. Bach's time have for years stood at the middle of his work. |
